Fitting and rigging a 74-gun model ship
This guide is an help to the construction of the equipment of a ship model of the late XVIIIth and early XIXth centuries, but is applicable to any other era of wooden shipbuilding.
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Book in A4 format of 128 pages in full color. (paper 150 grs and sewn)
CONTENTS
NOTE
FOREWORD
A FEW WORDS ABOUT THE MODEL
CHAPTER I– Fittings and more
Tools
Laminates
The sandpaper file
Working on the stern and the stem
Making gratings
Upper-decks and poop-deck breastwork
The breast rail stanchions and belaying pins
Ladders
Shroud chains
Anchors
The guns
The figurehead
The stern lantern
CHAPTER II - The Masts
Making the spars
Lower mast and lower yard hoops
The yardarms
Building the tops
Topgallant trestletrees and crosstrees
CHAPTER III – Blocks
Preparing slats
Making the shells
Finishing the blocks
CHAPTER IV – Rope work
The workspace
Theory
In practice
Serving
Particular cases for small cables
CHAPTER V – Finishing the rope work
Eyes and mouse (stays)
Shrouds masthead rigging
Rope bights
The shrouds
Wall-knots
Ratlings
Hammock-nettings
To Clap-on blocks to the yards
Small block straps
The thimbles or rings
Hooked return blocks
The anchor buoys
CHAPTER VI – Making the sails
The cloths
Tabling
Linings and patches
Eyelets
Bolt-ropes, foot-ropes and head-ropes
Bolt-rope cringles
Reef-point
Gaskets
Grommets
The bent sails
CHAPTER VII – Installation of the sails
Leading and belaying the ropes
Jibs
Staysails
Lower sails
Topsails and mizzen topsail
Topgallant sails and mizzen topgallant
Driver
Jib sheets and installation of anchors
Finishing the installation of square sails
Staysails sheets
Inspection of the work done
CHAPTER VIII – The ship’s boat
Construction method
The forms
Framing
Keel, stem and sternpost
Sterns
Planking
Form removal
Stern-sheets
Floor-timber, inner planking
Thwarts, stem and stern inner areas
Rudders
Finishing details
CHAPTER IX – Technical data
Making the ropes
Shrouds, back-stays, stays, preventer-stays, bowsprit mast
Catharpins, various, range-cleats / belaying cleats
Blocks, sheet-blocks,, staysail stays, bolt-ropes, foot-ropes, etc…
Fall tackles, yard-tackles
Sail tackles, anchor ropes and cables
Yard rigging
Lower sail clusters, blocks for the stays
CHAPTER X – Block distribution
Rigging parts for the masts and for the operation of the yards
Rigging parts for the operation of the sails
Rigging parts for the operation of the guns
CHAPTER XI – Return tackles
Forecastle
Quarterdeck
Poop-deck
Author : Francis Jonet
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